Material Design Gets Expressive: Inside Google's Emotion-Driven UX Update
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Interaction & UXUI Design
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This special episode digs into the latest evolution of Google’s design system: Material 3 Expressive (https://m3.material.io/blog/building-with-m3-expressive).
Liam talks with Material Design’s Android Product Manager Aneesha Kommineni, UX Researcher Michael Gilbert, and Creative Director Andy Stewart about the team’s latest emotion-driven UX update. They reveal how this system is grounded in user research (https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research) and how it offers both developers and users more flexibility. The group also chats about making design more than objective, connecting to users' emotional landscapes, and driving business outcomes — all while considering tooling, usability, accessibility, and more.
This special episode digs into the latest evolution of Google’s design system: Material 3 Expressive (https://m3.material.io/blog/building-with-m3-expressive).
Liam talks with Material Design’s Android Product Manager Aneesha Kommineni, UX Researcher Michael Gilbert, and Creative Director Andy Stewart about the team’s latest emotion-driven UX update. They reveal how this system is grounded in user research (https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research) and how it offers both developers and users more flexibility. The group also chats about making design more than objective, connecting to users' emotional landscapes, and driving business outcomes — all while considering tooling, usability, accessibility, and more.